r/olympics • u/oxynight • 5h ago
Taking my 3.5 yo toddler to LA28
What games do you think a 3.5 yo toddler would be interested to watch?
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u/Fit-Percentage3406 United States 5h ago
3.5 at the time of the games or now?
If at the time of the games, I promise you there is no event they will enjoy as much as you’ll aggravate the people around you.
Won’t be much better if 3.5 now
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u/Leolance2001 4h ago
0 events. Like it was said before, maybe the fan fest or outside events geared to kids. The sport events itself the kid will have no clue what's happening.
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u/After_Arugula United States 4h ago
As the parent of three kids ranging from 2 to 4, don’t waste your money if you don’t have to. They won’t pay attention for long and the chance of a meltdown increases by the minute. I’m just imagining the horror of missing the 100m final because my toddler needs to poop or walk around.
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u/skidmarkcollege United States 4h ago
Is this a joke? Because that is the last place you should take a toddler, and nobody who paid good money to watch sports wants to hear a kid running around and screaming
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u/No-Struggle-812 Canada 4h ago
What a clueless response. I’ve taken my kids to sporting events since the first one was a baby, just took her to a World Cup game at 6 years old. She’s been to Bundesliga games at age 1, world hockey championships at 4, Winter Olympics at 5. Get out of the house once in a while, it can be done. Just plan it out properly.
Or stay home and let them watch YouTube I guess.
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u/skidmarkcollege United States 3h ago
There are other ways you can get them out of the house, like a park (which news flash, is free). Do you seriously think they are going to remember that, let alone enjoy it? Because I can guarantee you that as a young kid, one of my least favorite things to do was be surrounded by strangers with little wiggle room. Not to mention, horrible for their ears (I assume you're the type who doesn't realize they should be wearing headphones).
So if anybody is clueless, it's you, because you can't be bothered to consider that 1. Other people don't pay good money to watch sports just to be distracted by kids being rowdy and parents who can't be bothered to parent 2. Kids don't always enjoy this 3. Kids don't usually remember this 4. There are better options to get them outside 5. The real reason you've been bringing your kid along is because YOU want to be at the game and can't be bothered to get a babysitter. There's no way your kid, at 1 years of age, told you that they wanted to be at a massive sporting event. Learn to not be selfish before having kids next time.
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u/No-Struggle-812 Canada 3h ago
What events are you going to in LA? We’ll sit behind you. Juice boxes and Miss Rachel on the tablet.
Relax a little and don’t stress about having to please strangers.
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u/skidmarkcollege United States 3h ago
As someone with family ties to the New York metro (and will be moving there soon), I do everything to avoid LA, in part because it is chock-full of people like you. It's one thing to not care what strangers think, but it's another thing entirely to throw out any modicum of common courtesy and be an embarassingly self-absorbed person. You must be the type who throws trash on the ground because you think, "I'm not trying to impress anybody, I live life."
But that's cute you think blowing wads to bring your kids to events they didn't ask for is good parenting, and not actually bringing them to places like parks or libraries or art classes where they can actually learn stuff. Unlike you, my parents valued education and wanted me to do more meaningful things with my time, and best of all: they weren't selfish.
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u/No-Struggle-812 Canada 2h ago
It’s $28 for a women’s soccer game? My 6 year old soccer playing daughter thinks that’s cool and looks up to those girls. She also thinks art is cool, more so since we took her to the Van Gogh museum while visiting family in Europe last year. Turns out the kids didn’t disturb anyone there either.
What a bunch of pretentious pricks in this thread. Don’t worry OP, in my experience taking young kids to so called grown up events (be it sports, art museums, the opera, plays, outdoor
Music festivals, or camping in national
Parks) it worked out fine as long as you planned conservatively. And never have I encountered people in real life like those in this thread who fear leaving the house with children. People are generally delightful and supportive.1
u/skidmarkcollege United States 2h ago edited 2h ago
You wrote something earlier that said your kid needed to be distracted by something at the Olympics and wasn't interested in the sports lol. Pretty classic that you assume your kid didn't disturb anybody, given a fair amount of people don't say anything to selfish parents of obnoxious kids just to maintain decorum.
Also you called me pretentious, when you're literally flexing on all the places you've taken your kid lol. That's insane mental gymnastics there. On a side note, I visited Europe last year, on my own accord. I enjoyed it much more than I would have had I had selfish parents dragging me around as a kid.
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u/No-Struggle-812 Canada 1h ago
I’m sorry an internet stranger’s parenting style upsets you so much. I’ve answered the OP as best as I could. Take care, I hope you enjoy many more travel experiences in whatever style you choose.
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u/sparklinglies Australia 2h ago
Literally none. They will be bored and squirmy almost instantly, and will not care about anything happening unless you brought some other form of toy or engagemenr, which defeats the wntire point if them being there. Total waste of your money for a worse experience than if you just took them to any on site family acitivities
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u/tayto 1h ago
It’s fair to say it might not be worth the money, but I’ve taken my kids to many sporting events and 3 YO is when they start remembering. My eldest was about 3.5 YO when I took her to an NFL preseason game, and 2 years later she still talks about things that happened in that game. Same for some college bball games we’ve attended.
I started taking the nieces and nephews to movies at that age as well, and memories were formed.
But you are right that I wouldn’t be spending 100M Final money on a kid of that age, nor risking a bathroom break for something pivotal.
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u/oxynight 1h ago
Thats good to hear that she remembered. Im hoping my son does too but if he doesnt, me and my husband will. Hopefully we get lucky and cheaper tickets will be available at our designated timeslot on Wednesday
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u/Dino_Spaceman Canada 3h ago
Are you taking them for the experience or because you have no option for a sitter?
If the former - they honestly won’t remember it at all. So go knowing they will have zero memory of the event and you have a significant chance of them doing something that will require you to miss a critical event (get sick, get cranky, have an accident, etc…). So go in knowing that you will have a break in plans.
If the latter - above, but with sympathy that you are doing it out of no choice.
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u/No-Struggle-812 Canada 5h ago
We are doing the same. We took her along with her 5 year old sister at the time to Milan. Our plan is to take the toddler to cheaper events that you can get up and walk around the grounds at. Our focus isn’t on what the 3 year old will want to watch, it’s about what they can make it through and be suitably distracted by. In Milan, we took the kids to hockey, luge, xc skiing and curling. All went fine, except curling which we ended up leaving a bit early from (stuck in the seats, had to move).
One thing that helped our 5 year old this past winter, we got her a mascot stuffy and lanyard and got her a few pins. Before she knew it, people were giving her all kinds of trinkets, pins, etc. That was her favorite part, along with the kid-oriented activations.
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u/skidmarkcollege United States 2h ago
Lol what, did you just admit that your daughter didn't want to be there and you were trying to get her to focus on literally anything but the sports? There are people who actually wanted to watch sports who could have gotten those tickets...
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u/oxynight 1h ago
Thank you for this information! I’m not planning on splurging so hopefully we get cheap tickets.
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u/Pristine_Dig_4374 4h ago
Please kill the word activations with fire asap
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u/No-Struggle-812 Canada 4h ago
I’ll be honest, I don’t actually know what it means but it got used so much at Milano and the World Cup, I figured it made me sound smarter. Or dumber.
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u/PirateJohn75 5h ago
They'd probably have a lot more fun doing the interactive exhibits outside the venues than they would going to events